Word: campus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hard-pressed President declared a dictatorship far more absolute than anything of Tyrant Machado's. Most sacred of Cuban fetishes is the autonomy of Havana University but President Mendieta had the University seized by soldiers, who found vast stores of ammunition and a few stolen cars on the campus. He announced that all Government employes who did not come back to work at once were automatically fired...
...will no longer accept his drink-rotted carcass. Honest Will Dowton sticks by him and appears at opportune moments to save him from the prison cell toward which the wretch of a Squire is directing his staggering steps. Will has a half-witted sister (played by a well-known campus character under the Puritan alias of Penny Menace) who, with her wild-eyed lyrical ramblings, steals a good bit of the show. As our hero seems headed for certain destruction, in stalks the noble raiser of lost souls, Arden Rencelaw (William Griffin) and restores him and his gladdened wife...
ALTHOUGH STORY IN YOUR ISSUE OF FEB. 18 CORRECTLY SHOWS THAT PUBLICITY WAS MOTIVE BEHIND OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY'S BARRING OF NATHAN YAGOL FROM CAMPUS, YOU MAKE INACCURATE STATEMENT WHICH SHOULD BE CORRECTED. FIRST, YAGOL IS NOT AN INSTRUCTOR BUT A STUDENT AT EMORY UNIVERSITY. SECOND, DE KALB COUNTY GRAND JURY FOUND ABSOLUTELY NO GROUNDS FOR CHARGE THAT HE IS A COMMUNIST OR THAT HE HAS EVER ATTENDED A COMMUNIST MEETING. THIRD, OGLETHORPE FOOTBALL SQUAD NUMBERED ABOUT 30 INSTEAD OF 100 AND IT WAS INSPIRED TO ATTACK YAGOL BY COACH FRANK ANDERSON WHO SAW AN OPPORTUNITY TO ADVERTISE HIS INSTITUTION...
Chancellor Bowman met the three pedagogs in the University Club. First thing he did was to take them outdoors and point to a beautiful Gothic skyscraper rising through the city's smoke from the University campus. That skyscraper is Pitt's Cathedral of Learning, whose exterior is done but whose interior awaits the raising of more millions. As the four men walked up the hill toward it, the pale, intense, esthetic Chancellor told his companions what the Cathedral means to him. It was his vision; it is his life work; it will be his monument. To build...
Yale has not been without its troubles this year, however, for the start of the season found Bob Beckwith, star on last year's yearlings, out with an appendectomy. Beckwith was one of the finest natural athletes seen on the Yale campus for some years, and his loss was a severe one. Then too internal dissension made itself felt on the squad, and a complete unity has yet to be realized...